Please help. Baby plant dying

Jakeee

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I'm new to growing. And I have 2 plants in my closet with 4 CFL lights. 1 set of tubed CFL's( 60 watt, 2950 lumens). Two 300 watt CFL bulbs(4200 lumens each). And one 150 watt CFL(1600 lumens). In total, I have a lot of light on my plants. I noticed after the first day that the first set of bottom leaves on my plant were turning yellow, and from what I read, I was "over-watering". So I stopped watering it. For a day. The plant is now dead and it looked to be really dried up. The other one seems to be doing fine but it's my last plant and I don't want it to die. Ill post some pictures of my setup and please feel free to leave me your input. Cheers!
 

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Miracle grow soil. Water them with a spray water bottle using distilled that got from my local store. I read that I shouldn't feed the baby's. was that False?
 
Leave the plants 2-3 days without water. The soil should be completely dry before watering again. I'm growing just fine in Miracle Grow. It is definitely a struggle to get going, but it does work fine. With that said however, I definitely won't use it on my next run.

-spek
 
The soil just looks like crap. I can't believe people charge money for that stuff. You will never see a professional greenhouse use crap like that. Even though CFL's are pretty wimpy in my book, I don't think you need that many for little seedlings.
 
Honestly, it doesn't even look all that bad to me. I know that when I first was getting started, I obsessed over little seedlings like this because they were all I had to focus my gardening attention on. I just wanted to do anything I could to make them "grow better". Now that I am more up and going in a perpetual grow I don't have time to worry over every little yellow spot/droop etc. These plants want to grow-- you just have to give them the space and time to do so. Some of my first seedlings seemed weak and I even thought of throwing them out because I was afraid they might be a waste of time. Instead I just left them alone except watering when totally dry. They eventually turned into beautiful plants. Im rambling at this point but I guess I am just trying to say that if they aren't showing an obvious deficiency -- which no seedling should -- the best thing to do is probably nothing.

Oh I wanted to add that your soil does indeed look like crap as the above poster said. I thought it was bark mulch used for landscaping at first.
 
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